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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.


Kay Redfield Jamison


#manic-depression #experience

It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.


David Lovelace


#depression #lithium #manic-depression #medication #therapy

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.


Marya Hornbacher


#marya-hornbacher #mental-illness #life

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.


Karl Lagerfeld


#absurdity #anti-absurdity #art #bi #bipolar

I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.


David Lovelace


#bipolar #hypomania #manic-depression #mental-illness #art

A vivid Imagination is awesome a Manic Imagination is a curse.


Stanley Victor Paskavich


#imagination

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.


Marya Hornbacher


#madness #manic-depression #mental-illness #reality #life

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.


Marya Hornbacher


#eating-disorder #madness #surrender #voice #worthless

Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both are willing to torture you to prove their points.


Melody Moezzi


#life

Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.


Melody Moezzi


#life






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